Sweet Valley Confidential by Francine Pascal

And it's time to revel in that.ĭon't underestimate the power of nostalgia.

And if SVC didn't come out this year, I probably would've done the Dwanollah version as my 2011 NaNoWriMo!īut Sweet Valley Confidential finally happened. I have my own outlines and proposals and rough scenes blocked out and everything, from Jessica working side-by-side with Alice Wakefield as an interior designer, putting her art history experience to some use, and Liz, lady of the manor and married to Max Pennington, rethinking her precipitous decisions and overall emotional well-being. Of course, I threatened multiple times to write the damned thing myself if Francine didn't.

But lo! Francine Pascal hadn't forgotten us! Francine Pascal was still there, with the Sweet Valley “bible” and a ready pen! In an interview in BUST Magazine back in 2005, she let spill that she was working on a new Sweet Valley project, Sweet Valley Heights, which would take place in an exclusive gated community, following the twins and their friends as twenty-somethings! We all flipped out in excitement, and then waited. And all of us each thought we were the only ones willing to 'fess up.Īfter the last of the Sweet Valley books dribbled away, no longer seeming to have a place in a contemporary YA market of vampire slayers, princesses and drunken multi-hook-ups, we thought it was all over. We all shared this huge, pastel pink-and-yellow Gladiator- and sorority-populated world, and many of our lives' experiences were, in some way, touched by that. They, too, had questions, complaints, confessions. They, too, were shaped by those characters. In the years since I wrote the original Blather, I've received more emails than I can count, from women in the US, Australia, New Zealand, the Czech Republic, India, Japan, saying that they, too, read Sweet Valley books. Not even when, a decade ago, in an Internet dearth of anything Sweet Valley, I posted my now-oft-linked Blather, Dwanollah's Sweet Valley Slam Book (), did I think this day would come. Who would've guessed it? Almost thirty years ago, when we first met “the most dazzling, the most adorable, most perfectest blond-haired aqua-eyed sixteen-year-old girls ever to grace this planet and you so wish you could be them!” did you ever imagine that, well into the 2000s, we'd still be talking about the Wakefield twins, and all the other mythical inhabitants of that El Dorado of a SoCal town, Sweet Valley?Ĭertainly not I. Amazing works of genius, cheating cheaters, major continuity errors, omg teh sex!, recapper: dwanollah1, sweet valley confidential, todd punch

Sweet Valley Confidential by Francine Pascal